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10 Dec 2016 2:06:29pm

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Whether it is IT, or more generally the sciences and engineering, I see remarkably few women attempt the course of study. Once through the degree, in general women perform as well as anyone else.The one area that is science related that women seem to take a real shining to is medicine . . . not sure why that is.I suspect there is a bias built into the system, in that socially inept people can excel in hard science (the number of jokes about engineers and scientists can attest to this in part), and that stigma may be somewhat offputting for many women. And even worse, an attractor for many men. Which in turn re-inforces the culture in the industry.

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